Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-09-29

TURNER 60. HERALD.
W. c. BROWN, puslIsHrn.
HURLEY. a. DAKOTA.
A NEGRO cook on board OF Scotch
schooner is the author of novel way
of killing q shark. He heated a fire.
brick red hot, wrapped ;tup in a greasy
cloth and threw it overheard, when the
voracious shark darted after it and
swallowed it. The sharks fury was
soon subdued, and he foated to the
surface dead.
In the year 1886 there We're 697, 2l3,-
900 passengers carried on the railroads
of Great Britain, having 1854 miles
open for traffic. There was also trans
ported over these roads 257 $50, 900
tons of freight The capital involved
is placed at .eS2l, 100000 or ST.
1O5, ,O00,0 600, and an average dividend
of III per cent. was declared
On Mrs. E. P. Buckingham's ranch,
Lagoon Valley, CAL, is a monster fig
tree, around which staging thirty feet
high has been erected SO as to gather
fruit, the yield from which is often n
ton. The tree is about "a years old,
and we presume was planted by Deme-
tria Pena. Five feet from the ground
it measures lis inches liz circumfer-
ence.
A LARGE number of Rio coffee plant
ers are acquiring plantations in the new
coffee districts of Sac Pallo in Brazil.
This indicates not only an early col
lapse of coffee production in the prov
ince of Rio de Janeiro, where the pro-
dnction depends largely upon slave la
Dor, but large increase in the pro-
duction of Sac Paulo, where free labor
has secured footing and where the
plow and cultivator can be used.
SALMON are becoming very scarce in
the upper Rhine. Though vast num-
bers of the fish go down the river to
the sea, only small portion ever re-
turn again, for the Dutch fishermen in
tercept the salmon on their way back
by most ingenious and complete sys-
tenn of nets. Lately the Dutch caught
over $4,000 salmon in week, SO that
the German and Swiss fishermen
higher up the river complain bitterly.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been writing
good advice in an English "NIees's"
album. The young lady petitioned the
Prince pathetically for his autograph,
declaring that a few lines of his hand
writing would make her happy for life.
So the Chancellor wrote on the front
page of the book: Beware, my child,
of building castles in the air, for they
are buildings which we erect so easily,
yet they are the most difficult to de-
molish."
EXTENSIVE wedding trousseaus are
not really necessary when the course of
true love get aregular glacial headway.
A Stockton, CAL, farmer grabbed his
pretty sweetheart from her wash-tub,
smuggled her into carriage, and
drove madly to justice of the peace.
Relatives pursued. and the fugitives
knocked down an innocent party on the
way, but, just the same, Mary stood up
before the justice in her wash-dress
aud took John for all there was to him.
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS Crouch, of
Baltimore, is now in his STth year, while
his fourth wife, to whom he was mar
ried years ago, is forty-tive years his
junior Although he has written a
large number of ballads, he is known to
fame principally as the author of
Kathleen Mavourneen. Besides
Kathleen, the child of his brain, this
English musician is the father of
twenty.seven children, one of whom
was the Cora Pearl who died in Paris
not long since.
CoLoRow, the Ute Chief who is maxi
ing the disturbance in Colorado, is an
enormous old savage weighing 300
pounds. He is what is known in base
ball slang as "a kicker" He has never
been satisfied with the Government,
and has been more or less rebellious all
his life. He used to visit Denver very
often, and on one occasion wentto Gov.
McCook's Office and became rather in
solent. Gov. McCook kicked Colorow
out of his office and down flight OF
stairs into the street.
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ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON is considered
the richest man in Philadelphia. He
is said to be worth 100000, ,OOO all of
which he made himself. He is an old
bachelor, and the word "old" is used
adviselly. for he has passed his S5th
birthday. he has been very charitable
since he grew wealthy, and has been
known to give away $500, 600 in year.
He has of late grown very weak, and
his lease of life approaches its limit
He has never been addicted to display,
and has lived in quiet and tenta-
tious manner.
NEAR Charlottesville, Texas, lives
lady who has mortal dread of snakes.
She read once that reptiles always
wrap the tip of their tail around some
object when it is going to strike to
give itself leverage. One evening re-
Gently after retiring she aroused the
other inmates Of the house by her
piercing shrieks and informed them
that snake was in her bed. She said
that in passing her hand over the bed
snake had wound its tail around her
finger and WAS aIoflt TO strike her